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EUGENE, OREGON, FRIDAY, APRIL 21, 1939
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BE combination of a rainless spring and hot weather got the Pacific Northwest forest fire season off
h m early start this year, and brought threats of extensive damage on a wide front. This fire Is
Ira sweeping: through hills on the Washington side of the Columbia river. A portion of the Bonneville
his in the foreground.
fray Into California Town
Pef y Attacks of Population
COALINGA, Cal., April 21. (UP) This town was sur-
bnded by an invading army of billions of grasshoppers to-
r and advance units already were entering its outskirts.
Business was at a standstill and municipal authorities
ibilized virtually every able-bodied male to hold back the
aders, and, if necessary, fight Ithem through thestreets
d from house to house. '"""''"
resident Tells
f Shake-Uo
hief Will Propose
Jgency Consolidation
WASHINGTON, April 21. OP)
President Roosevelt indicated to-
consolidation of various gov-'
Eaeni lenaing agencies was un-
consideration in connection
h exereisine his reorganization
rers. He added no decisions had
been reached.
fSe president told a press con
race he may have two reor-
nation plans to send to con-
m next week, but he would not
"m wnat departments or in-
, - -0 iTklolljVUIVCU.
f e sa:d there was no substanca
report neard on Capitol hill
airman Jesse H. Jones of the
"Btracuon finance corporation
w pe made secretary of com
f J cceed Harry L. Hop--J.whohas
been ill recently.
Rosevelt labelled as guess.
reports the RFC and various
"5 nning agencies would be
sierred to tho rim,t .
Emerce. ul
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of such agencies. "
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The town actually was in a state
of emergency. Barrel after barrel
of poison bran mash had been
spread but the hopper army, com
posed of a type known as devas
tators, was so great that those
killed by the poison merely formed
a protective blanket for the hordes
following.
Five Skins
Men fought with whatever
weapon seemed potent. They
killed thousands and thousands of
the tiny pests, not yet shed of all
their five skins and thus unable to
fly, but it seemed a losing battle.
"They are such hard things to
fight," complained volunteers,
"you kill one and a thousand takes
its place."
Authorities considered digging a
deep trench completely around the
town and filling it with oil, as a
last resort. The chamber of com
merce and the associated cotton
farmers of California, sent hur
ried appeals to state and federal
authorities emphasizing that men
as well as new supplies of poison
were needed. Assemblyman Hugh
M. Burns, Fresno, said he would
seek an emergency appropriation
from the state to hire men and
buy mash. Farmers whose crops
lay in the hoppers' path beyond
the town asked that CCC enrollees
be sent here to aid in the fight.
The first damage by the hop
pers occurred southeast in the
Pleasant valley where swarms got
into 1,000 acres of cotton, flax and
barley. Nothing was left.
May Day Recipes
New Contest Topic
By MARIAN LOWRY
Each season brings many May
day parties, breakfasts and lunch
eans, especially, so the recipes-of-the-week-contest
again strives to
keep up with seasonal demands,
Carrot flower salad, see page
16.
Carrot salad, see page 5.
Carrot cutlets, see page 4.
Carrot loaf, see page 9.
Carrot salad Mexicano, see
page 6.
announcing the new topic to be:
"Menus and Recipes for May
Day Parties." This event will be
divided into five classifications
as follows:
1 Best menu for May break
fast or May luncheon.
2 Best recipe for main dish
SEE RECIPE STORY
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MANY PEOPLE
SALEM, April 21. A total
of 1236 delegates to the annual
Oregon Christian Endeavor con
vention registered here yesterday
but attendance at the opening ses
sion was only 800. About 1500
delegataes were expected by tonight.
Hint Of Rain
Cheers Oregon
Forecast Gives Hope
Of End Of Hazards
PORTLAND, April 21. OP)
The familiar gray skies of spring
and the smell of forthcoming rain
eased ' the " double burden of
drought and fire in Oregon today.
As the state entered its 37th day
without moisture, an all-time
weather record, government fore
casters predicted cooling showers
in the northwest section Friday
night and Saturday with lower
temperatures in the grain, cattle
and forest country east of the Cas
cade range.
A few brush fires still smould
ered in the Willamette valley but
danger, for the time being, had
passed. A blaze on Gales creek,
not far from Hillsboro, scene of the
season's first serious fire several
days ago, was controlled after It
damaged two farm homes.
Foes Of Foreman
Stalemate Ickes
WASHINGTON, April 21. M5)
Opposition to the appointment
of Clark Foreman of Atlanta, Ga.,
as Bonneville dam administrator
and impending reorganization of
several government agencies were
said today to have caused Secre
tary Ickes to postpone indefinitely
the selection of a successor to the
late J. D. Ross.
An informed person said pub
lished reports that Foreman, chief
of the public works administration
power division, was in line for the
$10,000-a-year position had
brought many protests from con
gressional and Oregon and Wash
ington groups.
He said they were extremely
critical of Foreman's background
as "a new dealer" and of his par
ticipation in the administration's
efforts to unseat Senator George
(D., Ga.) last year.
He added that congressional op
ponents, including several Pacific
northwest members and Senator
George, were determinted to avert
senate confirmation of Foreman if
he were nominated.
England's Shaw Believes
In 'Mercy Killings'
LONDON, April 21 'J?)
Geor?e Bernard Shaw said today
he thought tliH human race should
practice eulh?nasia the putting to
death painlessly of those suffering
from incurable diseases.
Shaw, who is 82, gave the fol
lowing comment on his election
as vice-president of the voluntary
euthanasia legalization society,
which hopes to push a bill through
parliament legalizing "mercy kill
ings." "After all, there are circum
stances in which it is rather un
reasonable to persist in living.
'Now that I am in my dotage I
am coming around to that conclu
sion more and more, but I hasten
to add there is not the slightest
hope for humankind that I shall
practice euthanasia myself. That
may be a little inconsistent but I
always like to be selfish."
Eugene Gets
Air Mechanics
institution
Vocational School New
Center For Training
Aviation Experts
Designation of the Eugene voca
tional school as an aviation me
chanics school for Oregon was an
nounced at the meeting of the
state board for vocational educa
tion held at the local- .vocational
school Friday morning. '
The aviation mechanics course
will start next year, and will be
conducted in cooperation with the
federal bureau of aeronautics, O.
D. Adams, state director of voca
tional education, told members of
the board.
Equipment valued at approxi
mately $30,000 is expected from
the war department to-be used in
connection with the course. Di
rector Adams said. The course
will be opened to a limited num
ber of students in line with the
school's policy of training only
that number of students that can
be placed in employment.
The meeting of the board was
attended by Governor Charles A.
Sprague and Rex Putnam, state
superintendent of public instruc
tion. Members of the board pres
ent were Fred C. King, Portland,
representative of employers; Bon
Mathis, Portland, representative of
labor; Mrs. C. W. Robison, Port
land, representing home makers;
Thurlow McNary Weed, Beaver-
SEE SCHOOL STORY
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Perkins Orderk
Bridges Hearing
Labor Secretary Asks
Deportation Proceedings
WASHINGTON, April 21. (U.R)
Secretary of Labor Frances Per
kins today ordered a prompt hear
ing in the deportation proceedings
against Harry Bridges, west coast
labor leader.
Miss Perkins said instructions
had been sent to west coast immi
gration officers to prepare the
evidence in the Bridges case im
mediately. She revealed that the suspension
of a warrant of arrest for Bridges,
previously issued, had been lifted.
Bridges has long been under in
quiry by the labor department on
charges that he is a communist
and, as a non-naturalized Australian-born
alien, subject to depor
tation. He is west coast director
of the congress of industrial or.
ganizations.
Action in the Bridges case had
been held up pending supreme
court action on a deportation case
against Joseph George Strecker,
Australian-born non-naturalized
one-time communist. The court
held Strecker not liable to deportation.
Canadians Hunt
Mystery Submarine
OTTAWA, Ont., April 21. (U.R)
Four Canadian naval vessels
were assigned today to a search of
north Atlantic waters off Halifax,
Nova Scotia for a mystery sub
marine reported sighted in that vi
cinity during the past week.
After announcement by De
fense Minister MaJ.-Gen. L. R.
LaFleche disclosed that the Sag
uenay and Skeena and the mine
sweepers Gaspe and Fundy had
steamed out fo Halifax harbor to
begin the patrols.
The Royal Canadian air base at
Dartmouth, across the harbor
from Halifax, is cooperating in
the search, LaFleche added.
Southern Pacific Day
Near Anniversary
Of Line's Completion
PORTLAND, Ore., April 21. W
Lyle F. Watts, new United States
regional forester, announced ten
tative plans today to bring G. E.
Mitchell, supervisor of the Siski
you national forest in southern
Oregon, to Portland to take charge
of wild life management for Ore
gon and Washington.
The forester said Edward P.
Cliff, assitant in the wild life and
range management division here,
probably would succeed him. It
will be several weeks before de
tails of the proposed change have
been completed.
WITHOUT disclosing when or where they would be married, Tyrone
Power and Ann Carpentier, known on the screen as Annabclla,
are shown as they applied for a marriage license at the Los Angeles
City hall. Power gave his age as 24, Annabella, 25. It will be the act.
ress' second marriage and the first for Power.
Gov. Sprague's Henchmen
See Him in U. S. Senate
Neutrality Said
Difficult In U.S.
Senator Borah Holds
Opinion Now Formed
WASHINGTON, April 21. (U.R)
Sen. William E. Borah, R., Ida.,
today indicated belief that Ameri
can opinion on Europe's crisis has
hardened to the point that true
neutrality has become almost im
possible.
Borah expressed his opinion
during questioning of Mrs. Helen
Taft Manning, witness before the
senate foreign relations committee
which is considering revision of
U. S. neutrality laws.
"Already," Borah said, "things
have taken place which makes it
Impossible for other nations to
look upon us as a neutral."
He said he did not refer to any
specific statement or act by a gov
ernment spokesman, but referred
rather to the manner in which na
tionals opinion had shaped itself
on European affairs.
Borah said his conclusion was
based upon "the general condition
of mind" throughout the country
toward totalitarian states.
The senator felt the foreign re
lations committee would find it
"difficult to get ourselves in a
state of mind" approximating a
judicial attitude.
"Haven't the people already
made up their minds who is right
and who is wrong? he asked. "We
have practically passed upon who
is an aggressor. The thing that is
uppermost in my mind is that
there is no neutrality at this time
because of conditions that exist in
the world."
Amateur Radio Men
To Meet In Eugene
Amateur radio operators of Ore
gon and southwestern Washington
will meet in Eugene Saturday and
Sunday for the eighth annual con
vention of the Oregon Amateur
Radio association. Features of the
meetings will be displays of short
wave and television equipment by
leading manufacturers, and talks
by outstanding authorities on
radio.
Registration will start Saturday
at 8 a. m and a dance will be
held in the evening. At the busi
ness meeting Sunday at 2 d. m,
officers will be elected and a meet
ing place for the 1940 convention
chosen. Meetings will be held at
the Osburn hotel.
Press Ponders Means
To Avoid War Censors
WASHINGTON, April 21. (P)
Members of the American so
ciety of newspaper editors con
sidered today predictions voiced
by Henry L. Mencken as they gave
attention to possible means of
averting censorship in event this
county should become involved in
war.
Mencken told the editors yes
terday conditions of government
control of the press in event of
war would be "even worse" than
in the World war when, he de
clared, "every newspaperman in
the United States did his work
under threat and dureii."
By PAUL W. HARVEY, JR.
SALEM, April 21. (Al
though a newcomer to the political
wars, Gov. Charles A. Sprague's
intimates already are booming him
for the United States senate in
1942.
They will bet you good money
that the governor never will re
turn to his Salem newspaper, their
theory being that when a man
gets in politics, he can't get out un
til the people throw him out.
There have been many reports
that Senator McNary, republican
minority leader, who has served
since 1917, will retire on Jan. 3
1943, to his beautiful country
home outside Salem. Those clos
est to Sprague want him to fill
McNary s shoes.
Of course the governor won't
say anything about this, because
that bridge is a long way off.
The funny thing about Sprague's
initiation into politics is that it was
an accident. He was virtually un
known about the state when he
announced a year ago he would
run Just so the republicans would
not let the office go by default.
Sprague never dreamed he had
a chance because he was sure Gov
ernor Martin, a democrat, would
be reelected. But Martin was de
feated by Henry L. Hess and
Sprague, getting as many votes as
the other seven republican candi
dates combined, saw his chances
boom sky high.
The rest of the story, how
Sprague led the republicans back
into power after they had been on
Reds Wish Britain,
France to Form
Bulwark of Nations
Coalition Would Oppose Aggression
By Germans, Italians or Japanese
LONDON, April 2L(AP) Soviet Russia has proposed
resurrection of the Anglo-French, Russian triple entente of
the World war, a highly authoritative source said today, as a
bulwark against possible future aggression by Germany,
Italy or Japan.
Such a recommendation of a flat reciprocal military alli
ance was said to have been made by Foreign Commissar
Maxim Litvlnoff to Sir William Seeds, British ambassador
in Moscow.
House Passes
Monetary Bill
Dollar Devaluation
Included In Measure
SEE GOVERNOR STORY
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Republicans Bid Stray
Democrats Join Ranks
WASHINGTON, April 21. UP)
An invitation from Republican
leaders for anti - administration
Democrats to join their ranks
stimulated today the mounting
capital discussions of the 1940
presidential campaign.
Senator Taft (R.-O.) told a
"Republicans-on-the-march" din
ner last night President Roosevelt
had issued "an insulting ultima
tum" when he suggested that dis
sident Democrats leave the party
or remain loyal.
"To the president," Taft said,
'(anyone who disagrees with him
is moved only by prejudice, and
if he is unwilling to subordinate
these prejudices, he is disloyal to
his lord and master.
"The Republican party certain
ly mirrors more accurately the
ideas of the leading anti-administration
Democrats than do the
New Dealers, and we welcome
them to our party councils. There
is no fundamental difference be
tween us which cannot be recon
ciled." Taft spoke of the New Deal as
a "failure" and accused the ad
ministration of "ballyhooing" the
foreign situation "to take the
minds of the people off their
troubles at home."
Republican Chairman John
Hamilton also welcomed any
Democrats who desired to "fall
into step with us in our match to
the restoration of this nation to
Americanism."
BUSINESS OFF
PORTLAND, April 21. (Pi
Reports from 115 mills showed
last week's new business of 63,
142,000 board fect of lumber was
13 per cent less than the previous
week, the Western Pine association
aid today.
WASHINGTON. April 21. C4)
The house passed and sent to
the senate today a bill extending
for two years the president s au
thority to devalue the dollar again,
the treasury's sz.uuu.uuu.uuo sta-'
bilization fund and its right to pay
subsidies on newly mined domestic
silver.
The bill passed on a voice vote.
Just before final passage, the
house defeated by a 25 to 158 roll
call vote, an amendment which
would have abolished the presU
dent's devaluation power. .
Approval of the bill climaxed a
bitter interparty scrap over ad
ministration monetary powers, in
which, the weight of the demo
cratic! majority crushed republi
can attempts to amend the measure
and Kill some of its Key provisions.
rne monetary powers would ex.
pire June 30 unless congress re
news them.
Republicans centered their fight
principally on the devaluation pro.
vision, existence of which they
contended, creates fear and un
certainty among business men.
Flying Colonel Asks
For Better Airships
WASHINGTON, April 21. VP)
Col. Charles A. Lindbergh's plea
for better American planes gave
impetus today to a drive for more
federal funds for aeronautical research.
The noted flier told the national
advisory committee for aeronaut
ics emphasis should be placed on
quality instead of quantity in plane
development. The committee has
recommended a $10,000,000 resarch
station at Sunnyvale, Cal., which
was rejected by the house. The
senate approved $4,000,000 to start
the project.
Lindbergh conferred with his
colleagues on the committee yes
terday after a 25-minute visit with
President Roosevelt. He did not
disclose his recommendations, but
some of those who attended the
meeting said he declared it was
vital for the United States to de
velop superior types of civil and
military aircraft.
His reported advice was that
plane production could be speeded
up in an emergency, but quality
could not be developed in plane
design in a hurry.
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
Will Wed On Saturday
HOLLYWOOD, April 21. P-
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., motion
picture actor, and Mrs. Mary Lee
Epling Hartford will be married
tomorrow at 3:30 p. m. (PST) in
Westwood Methodist Episcopal
church, members of the family
said today.
Fairbanks' father, Douglas, Sr.,
veteran actor, will serve as best
man, and Mrs. Giles Thomas Ep
ling of Bluefield, W. Va., will give
her daughter away.
Fortnightly Club
Gives Library $100
A gift of $100 to be used at the
Eugene public library was voted
by the Eugene Fortnightly club,
Thursday afternoon. Mrs. Percy
W. Brown as club librarian will
present the check to the library
and will work from the club in
expending the sum for use at the
library.
The Fortnightly club Is the or
ganization responsible for estab
lishment of Eugene's public li
brary and has worked in the in
terest of the institution ever since
organized In 1893,
Both Britain and France, this in
formant said, have the proposal
under serious consideration.
No official indication was given
on the Anglo-French reply, but
Britain, although favoring a less
binding agreement, was believed
to be ready to accept such a mili
tary alliance rather than lose Rus
sia's support.
Wanta Full Support
Moscow, having in mind the pos
sibility of attack both by Germany
in the west and Japan in the east,
was said to have demanded full
military support from Britain and
France in return for her adhesion
to the bloc of nations they are
forming.
Informed sources said Britain
expected a much more vague and
less binding agreement by which
Russia would merely "support" the
coalition being formed by London
and Paris.
Although British officials were
reported willing to accept Russian
cooperation on a flat tri-partite
military alliance . basis, , it was
feared here Rumania and Poland,
now holding British-French guar
antees of their independence,
might block the negotiations, .i ;
It was believed in London diplo
matic circles Russia had offered
to cooperate on an outright mili
tary alliance basis because she
fears she might be caught by a
joint German-Japanese invasion.
Princess Elizabeth Has
Thirteenth Birthday
Tea Celebration
WINDSOR, Eng., April 21 OP)
Princess Elizabeth, heiress pre
sumptive to the crown of the
world's greatest empire, came of
teen age today, and was hostess at
a five o'clock tea to celebrate her
thirteenth birthday in a "grown
up" manner.
Elizabeth received a box of silk
stockings real long ones from
her mother, a symbol of the
"young lady" status she is achiev
ing. From her father there was
another pearl for her necklace.
In the last year the girl, tall and
a bit gangling, has discarded half-
socks and hair ribbons. She wears
her brown bobbed hair with a clip.
The king also gave his daughter
a diamond bracelet while her
grandmother, Queen Mother Mary,
gave a silver dressing set.
From Uncle Edward and Aunt
Wallis the Duke and Duchess of
Windsor came a movie camera.
Republican Miaja
Leaves France For Cuba
PARIS, April 21. OP) General
Jose Miaja, outstanding republi
can military leader in the Spanish
civil war, left Paris with his fam
ily today enroute to Cuba to make
a new home. They planned to sail
from La Rochelle for Havana.
Weather News
Thursday's maximum tempera
ture again neared the eighty-mark
as Lane county's dry spell con
tinues. A light shower of rain fell
here during the night, measuring
only a trace at the weather bureau.
The forecast follows:
OREGON: Cloudy tonight and
Saturday, probably light showers
in northwest portion and on coast,
cooler in interior of south and east
portions Saturday; moderate west
erly wind off the coast.
AIRPORT BUREAU RECORD:
Minimum temperature, Friday, 41
degrees; maximum temperature,
Thursday, 79.1 degrees; wind, at
noon, Friday, north; precipitation
to 4:30 a. m. Friday, trace.
RIVER BUREAU RECORD:
Stage of Willamette river in Eu
gene rt 7 a. m. Friday, 1.1 feet.
SIUSLAW TIDES
High
Low .
High
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Hlth ,
Low .
, 1:41 a. m.
8:37 A. m.
Sundiy
2.19 a. ni.
9:20 a. m.
Monday
3.M a. m.
10:08 a. m.
2:48 B, m.
8:24 0. m.
3:37 p.
8:09 p.
4:59 p.
10:03 V.